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It's Curtains Mods ([personal profile] stagemanagers) wrote in [community profile] itscurtains2021-05-30 12:40 am
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once more with feeling [act 3]

You awake in an unfamiliar bed.

It’s comfortable enough, sure, but it’s certainly not yours. The room, too, is unfamiliar, especially in such heavy darkness. There seems to have been a great effort put into making it a livable space, with fuzzy rugs laid over linoleum, beds arranged as best to fit (and one bunk bed per dorm, rip whoever has the bottom bunk), and a single desk. You've also got individually labelled trunks; if you look inside yours, you'll find a yearbook with mostly blank pages, as well as a few with some interesting information. But even with all these changes it’s clear this room started it’s life as a classroom, every window hidden behind heavy dark green curtains.

To add to the strangeness of it all, your clothes have been swapped for some kind of uniform. It, though fitting your body perfectly, might feel a bit odd to some of you, as the body you have isn’t quite the same as it was before you mysteriously fell unconscious. The other important thing to note is the people in the other beds around you, all wearing the same color-coded uniform.

The hallway outside the dorms is narrow but well-lit, with fresh white walls and some scattered posters advertising some kind of midweek club meeting. The hallway goes on until, for the more contemporary of you, the pieces start to fall together as to your location: a school. Once you leave your rooms you’re free to wander as you wish but pinned up on a corkboard just outside the cafeteria there’s framed information that you might find helpful. If you explore further into the other rooms, in fact, you'll see there's an identical copy outside all of them.

In the lobby there are linoleum floors and fluorescent lighting, and a pair of glass doors that appear to lead outside. You can see out of both of them that the sun is shining brightly and there’s definitely more to see in the distance but the glass is unbreakable; you can't get out that way right now. A rolling metal sheet blocks off the hallway to the west. For the moment, both doors leading outside are locked.

It looks like you’re stuck. But hey - at least you aren’t alone.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ says Orpheus, pausing for a moment. ] Why do people who have a lot of money spend so much of it on things that make other people miserable?

[ He asks this with absolute earnestness. Orpheus has not met many rich people in his life but this seems to be a recurring problem with them, and he genuinely can't understand it. ]
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[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-02 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Good question.

If I was rich, I'd spend it all on alcohol. Then no one would be miserable.
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-02 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus proceeds to casually assume she means hosting parties rather than drinking it by herself, and doesn't think about it any further. ]

Well, I hope this school is better than your last one? Despite, um. The kidnapping. Everyone here seems pretty nice so far.

[ that's a bit of a generous assessment on some counts but look ]
brokeforgood: (farrah34)

[personal profile] brokeforgood 2021-06-02 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's probably a good assumption. It's what she means, but it's also best to keep her from dwelling on how everyone else would be happier if she were less herself. And his comment about the school makes her laugh.]

Yeah. People are a lot less stuck up. Even with your foreign names. Not that people with foreign names are stuck up! Just like, sometimes-- [foot in mouth]
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[personal profile] themuseabandonsyou 2021-06-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Orpheus pauses for a moment, thinking about that. He doesn't look too offended, at least, but this does raise a question. ]

Where are you from?

[ He's curious because she keeps calling his name foreign, and hers is unfamiliar to him, but she has an American accent. But he sure doesn't specify that that's why he's asking all of a sudden. ]